Taxes and revenue
21 tracked measures relating to taxes and revenue, in 8 states.
Topic labels are applied by this site to group related measures. They are a navigation aid, not a legal classification, and they are not assigned by any state.
Arizona
2 measures
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On the ballot
Proposition 141 would amend the Arizona Constitution to bar state and local governments from taxing or charging a fee based on the number of miles a vehicle travels, and from limiting or…
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Proposition 316 would bar a city, town, or other local tax jurisdiction from imposing or raising a sales tax on groceries above 2% of the base price without voter approval. A jurisdiction…
California
6 measures
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On the ballot
Proposition 2 would change the constitutional rules for California's Budget Stabilization Account, the reserve voters created in 2014. It would double the cap on that reserve from 10…
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Proposition 3 would make permanent the higher personal income tax rates on high earners that voters approved as Proposition 30 in 2012 and extended through Proposition 55 in 2016. Those…
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Proposition 40 would impose a one-time state tax of up to 5 percent on the covered assets of taxpayers holding more than $1 billion. Covered assets would include businesses, securities…
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Proposition 41 would bar any new state tax whose revenues are excluded from the state appropriations limit voters approved in 1979. For statewide special taxes — taxes dedicated to a…
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Proposition 42 would prohibit new state taxes on the ownership of personal property, including business interests, intellectual property, and financial assets such as the holdings in…
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Proposition 43 would raise the share of votes needed to approve local special taxes that voters themselves place on the ballot by signature gathering, from a simple majority to two-thirds…
Colorado
2 measures
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On the ballot
This initiated constitutional amendment would require the state and local governments to spend transportation-related revenue only on road transportation, beginning January 1, 2027. Covered…
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Proposition NN was referred to voters by the Legislature in Senate Bill 26-135. It would let the state keep and spend revenue above the limit set by the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, in an…
Florida
3 measures
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On the ballot
Amendment 1 would change the constitutional rules for Florida's budget stabilization fund, the reserve the state draws on for emergencies and revenue shortfalls. It would raise the fund's…
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Amendment 2 would exempt certain farm equipment and other tangible personal property from local property taxes. The exemption would apply to property that is habitually located or typically…
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Amendment 3 would raise Florida's homestead exemption for all property taxes other than school district levies to the first $150,000 of assessed value in 2027 and the first $250,000 in…
Massachusetts
4 measures
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Did not qualify
This initiative would have lowered the Massachusetts personal income tax rate in stages, from 5 percent to 4.67 percent for tax year 2027, 4.33 percent for 2028, and 4 percent for 2029 and…
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Question 5 would change how Massachusetts calculates the annual cap on state tax collections set by Chapter 62F, the 1986 voter-approved law that requires collections above the cap to be…
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Question 6 would create a Nature for All Fund in the state treasury for natural resource conservation, administered by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs with a…
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Question 8 would repeal the Massachusetts laws that license and tax recreational marijuana sales, ending the regulated adult-use market, the state marijuana tax and the local option tax…
Michigan
1 measure
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Withdrawn
This proposed constitutional amendment, campaigned as "Invest in MI Kids," would have added a surtax of up to 5 percent on annual taxable income above $1 million for joint filers or…
Nevada
2 measures
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have changed the Nevada Constitution's unfunded-mandate provision, which a 2022 Nevada Supreme Court ruling reads as requiring sponsors of any…
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Did not qualify
Assembly Joint Resolution 5 would have asked Nevada voters to remove the state constitutional ban on a lottery, which has been in place since statehood. A constitutional amendment proposed…
Washington
1 measure
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On the ballot
Initiative 645 would repeal Washington's new 9.9 percent tax on individual income above $1,000,000 a year before it takes effect on January 1, 2028, and would prohibit the state and any…
About taxes and revenue ballot measures
Tax and revenue measures set or limit what a state and its local governments may collect and spend: rates and brackets, exemptions and credits, caps on assessment or levy growth, supermajority requirements for future increases, dedicated funds, and borrowing.
The most consequential provision is often not the rate but the constraint. A measure that requires a two-thirds legislative majority to raise any tax later, caps annual assessment growth, or locks revenue into a dedicated fund does not just change today's number — it removes a lever from every future legislature and budget. Constitutional placement compounds that, because only another vote of the people can undo it.
Practical things to check: whether the measure raises, lowers, or reallocates money; who actually bears the change — property owners, businesses, consumers, a specific industry; whether there is a sunset date or an inflation adjustment; and what the state's official fiscal note estimates over a full budget cycle. Each measure page reproduces that fiscal summary and links to the analysis it came from.
Wording, numbering, and certification status are set by each state and can change up to the printing of the ballot. Every summary above links to the records it was built from; where those records disagree with this page, the records govern. Confirm the final ballot text with your state or county election authority before you rely on it.